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Photography – Why Take Pictures? – Power of a Photograph

Jeff

Different Sets of Feet

Every so often someone will ponder or ask the question outright: “Why do you take pictures?” The simple answer, which is often the best, is that photographs can be powerful. Did you ever see someone look at a picture and cry? Did you ever see someone look at a picture and smile? Did you ever see someone look at a picture and recoil in horror or astonishment?

I have seen all of these and I have experienced them as well. Oh, and one last thing…photographs can be fun.

The Cooperative of Photography (COOPH) has produced a YouTube video called The Power of a Photograph and they provide specific examples of

  • Unique moments
  • Iconic Moments
  • Fun Moments
  • Moments of Loss & Desperation
  • Moments of Defiance
  • Moments of Bravery
  • Moments of Love & Respect
  • …And Moments of Triumph

The video below helps us appreciate why people take photographs and the power behind pictures.

From the YouTube video:

Published on Apr 19, 2016

“The COOPH team explores iconic photographs and famous moments throughout history that captured raw human emotions and stunned the world.”

Inspire the World

 

JBRish.com originally published this post

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Composition: Building Block of Good Photography

Jeff

DIY Photography has a video that explains 9 Photo Composition Tip/Rules in a bit more than three minutes. The compositional techniques are listed below:

  • Rule of thirds
  • Using leading lines
  • Diagonal lines create movement
  • The importance of framing
  • Contrast figure and background
  • Get close to your subjects
  • Center the dominant eye
  • Patterns are aesthetically pleasing
  • Use Symmetry

Composition is one of the basic building blocks of a good photograph. There are a couple of rules demonstrated that aren’t often explained such as “Center the dominant eye.” Watching the rules take form in front you brings home the impact of some of the techniques highlighted.

You can watch the COOPH (Cooperative of Photography) video below:

COOPH explains 9 photo composition tips with the help of Steve McCurry’s incredible photographs. Special thanks go to Steve McCurry for his time and permission to use his photographs in this video!

A follow up to this video is an article posted on PetaPixel, 9 Photo Composition Tips As Seen in Photographs by Steve McCurry, which carries the same video, but also breaks the rules down via still shots so that they are easily noticed and understood.

Watching both the video and reviewing the PetaPixel article provides good reinforcement of the concepts demonstrated.